Inasmuch as the style guides and books on book design that list the pieces making up the front matter of a book do differ in how much wiggle room is allowed for the occurrence or even sequence of the items (unlike what I said previously), here’s three more lists, plus each book’s words about how fixed or flexible the list really is. Continue reading “Front matters, too”
More ink in heaven and earth, Horatio
Inasmuch as there was spare time before I got a turn on the press at the Introductory Letterpress Course at NCAD with Mary Plunkett to print my definition of tea, I also set these two lines from Hamlet:
Front matters
Inasmuch as many style guides and books on book design include a list of their one, true sequence for the pieces making up the front matter of a book, it can be instructive to see how some of these sequences differ. Continue reading “Front matters”
Tea: lifeblood of nations
Inasmuch as I’d missed too many sessions to complete what I’d set out to do in the Introductory Letterpress Course at NCAD with Mary Plunkett, I instead made this concoction:
